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Old 09-05-2008, 12:14 PM   #1
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September 5, 2008: ...and the Russians used a pencil.



Here they are. Those specially-researched, tax-payer-costing, anti-gravity, gas-pressurized writing pens which allowed American astronauts to be able to write in space. They're display at the Air n' Space Museum. in Washington DC.
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:22 PM   #2
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I have a space pen around here somewhere. I don't like the way it writes.
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:24 PM   #3
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The Russians don't have the cinematic capability for a trip to "space."
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:24 PM   #4
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I gave my astronaut pen to Jack Klompus.
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:28 PM   #5
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Didn't the Russkies have trouble with shavings when they had to sharpen the pencils?
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:38 PM   #6
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I Googled "snopes space pen" and it said FALSE.
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:45 PM   #7
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Bic deal.
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:47 PM   #8
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The IoTD isn't false if you take out tax-payer-costing.
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:51 PM   #9
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IT SAID FALSE. [/thread]
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Old 09-05-2008, 12:53 PM   #10
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Your face is false.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:11 PM   #11
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It said the anecdote about the Russians using a pencil was false. The pressurized pens were real.

And furthermore, who Googles "snopes [anything]?" Just go directly to snopes and search from there. Unless you have the google toolbar--in which case it still only saves you, oh, a half dozen keystrokes.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:17 PM   #12
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It's the same number of steps.

A. Goto Google, search for snopes space pen, click, read.

B. Goto Snopes, search for space pen, click, read.

I prefer using a common search interface over website-based internal searches. Google is often better at finding something within a site than the site's own internal search. And I just don't want to have to go to the page (which isn't in my favorites, Google is, btw) and look for their search function. I go directly to Google and it works the same way every time.
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:28 PM   #13
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btw, this is coming from Clodfobble, who still manually dials phone numbers. [/Flint never forgets]
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:43 PM   #14
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btw, this is coming from a person who still manually dials phone numbers. [/Flint never forgets]
You have a rotary phone?
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Old 09-05-2008, 01:47 PM   #15
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I have one of those old, gas-powered dildos around here somewhere...
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